ADMINISTRATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUMAN-CENTRIC PRINCIPLE IN JUDICIAL, HEALTHCARE, AND SOCIAL SERVICES: UKRAINE’S POST-WAR ECONOMIC RECOVERY EXPERIENCE FOR EU COUNTRIES

Abstract

In the context of Ukraine's post-war economic recovery, it is particularly relevant to rethink the administrative and legal principles underpinning the functioning of the public services system in the context of ensuring human rights, freedoms and legitimate interests. The contemporary challenges that have been associated with the consequences of the war, the restoration of infrastructure, the growth of the population's needs for judicial, medical and social services, as well as the need for further integration of Ukraine into the European legal space, necessitate the establishment of a human-centric approach as one of the defining guidelines for the development of public administration. This article aims to examine the economic, financial, administrative and legal foundations of implementing a human-centric approach to providing judicial, medical and social services during Ukraine's post-war economic recovery, and to determine the potential for relevant states in the European Union to use this experience. The study focuses on the social relations that emerge when public administration entities organise and provide public services. The study is based on the following methodological approaches: dialectical, systemic-structural, formal-legal, functional, and comparative-legal. These methods were used to comprehensively investigate the theoretical and practical aspects of implementing a human-centric approach in modern administrative law. The study revealed the administrative and legal nature of the human-centric principle, and the author formulated a definition of the specified category. The features of its implementation in judicial, medical and social services were characterised, and common administrative-legal mechanisms for its implementation were determined. It was thus established that the digitalisation of services, simplification of administrative procedures, accessibility of services, interagency interaction, economic feasibility, financial instruments and orientation of state activities towards real human needs play a key role in ensuring the human-centric model of public administration. Particular attention is paid to Ukraine's experience of ensuring the continuity of public services in the face of military challenges, as well as in the context of future post-war recovery. The practical value of the results obtained lies in their potential use in improving the administrative and legal regulation of public services in Ukraine, and in forming crisis-resistant, human-centric models of public administration in the socio-economic sphere in European Union countries.